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In August 1920 a 24-year-old legislator in Nashville wore a red rose that marked him as an opponent of votes for women, while his pocket held a letter from his mother telling him to vote yes. He listened to her, and the last state needed to change the United States Constitution said yes. Behind that moment lay seventy years of petitions, prison cells, hunger strikes and quiet arguments at kitchen tables, and the American story is only one strand of a much larger one.

The fight for women's votes ran from revolutionary Paris to the sheep stations of New Zealand, from Finnish strike committees to Swiss referendums decided by men alone. The course shows why the first victories came at the edges of the world rather than its capitals, how campaigners argued from justice and from usefulness, why militancy still divides historians, and how the same reform could widen democracy in one country and serve racial rule in another. Above all you will be able to look at any franchise, past or present, and ask the question suffragists taught the world to ask: who is still left out?

Levels

  1. 1 1. Why the Vote Mattered 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. Seneca Falls and the American Split 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. Petitions and Persuasion in Britain 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. First Victories at the Edges 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. Deeds, Not Words: The Suffragettes 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. The Nineteenth Amendment 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. A Global Wave 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. What the Vote Changed 5-question quiz

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